The PNV will celebrate today the recovery of the palace from Marceau Avenue in Paris
Several councillors of the Basque Government and jeltzal leaders will take part in an event in the French capital to celebrate the restoration of the building that was confiscated from the first Basque Government during the Nazi occupation in 1940.
The PNV celebrates this Saturday in Paris an event full of political and historical symbolism: the presentation of the palace on Marceau Avenue.
The event will be attended by a number of Basque Government councillors and a broad delegation from the party leadership, who will stress the importance of recovering this property confiscated in 1940 after the entry of Nazi troops into the French capital.
The management of the PNV will make aninstitutional visit to 11 Marceau Avenue, the headquarters of the Basque Government in exile since 1937, where José Antonio Aguirre took the Executive after being handed over to the national Bilbao during the Civil War.
Thanks to the contributions of the diaspora and the mediation of the shipbuilder Marino de Gamboa, acquired by the PNV before the end of the Civil War, the building soon became a symbol of resistance and institutional legitimacy.
When Paris was liberated in 1944, the Basque Government returned to it for a short period of time, but the Nazis handed the keys to the palace to the dictatorshipof Franco.
During the transition, the PNV repeatedly claimed ownership of the building. In 1996, during negotiations between jeltzales and then-Minister of Public Administration Mariano Rajoy, one of the conditions put on the table was the return of the building, while years later the petition was endorsed in the Democratic Memory Act.
Finally,on 24 December , the Official Gazette of the State published a resolution officially returning the palace to the PNV. The measure provoked criticism from the PP, its spokesman, Miguel Tellado.
The building, located just eight minutes from the Eiffel Tower, is an example of the Haussmanian architecture of the late nineteenth century. It has four floors and a thousand square meters. It was built in 1883 for a pioneer businessman in the trade in department stores.
For years Cervantes Institutewas based there, until it left in August 2023. Today, the PNV celebrates it as a political victory, but above all as the recovery of a space that represents the memory of exile.
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